Sunday, April 17, 2016

Late last week, the Atlanta Fed lowered their Q1 GDP expectations down for the third time in a week to .1%, yet the mainstream continues to dismiss any possibility that the economy is either moving into recession, or that it is already in one. And at the core of their propaganda is the belief that the consumer is alive and well, and spending money assumed to have been garnered from lower oil prices.

But two new polls and surveys out on April 15 show that not only is this assumption a lie, but that trust and sentiment in the economy is falling rather than growing.